The European Central Bank is running into shortages of certain bonds, as part of its quantitative easing program

Update: The ECB responded to this article on September 2, 2016. The European Central Bank may be buying bonds from itself as it runs out of debt to sate its massive quantitative easing program. That’s according to economists at Jefferies. The ECB’s bond-buying program has been running for nearly 18 months, and investors and analysts […]